Les frontiers de Leach au prisme des migrations birmanes ou penser la société en mouvement
From the example of two Burmese migrations, this articles aims to show the movements taking on the Burmese society. The migration is not envisaged here as a founding act but as a creation process of social continuities and discontinuities. It allows us to study “tensions” emerging between the “nativ...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université de Provence
2011-09-01
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| Series: | Moussons |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/moussons/564 |
| Summary: | From the example of two Burmese migrations, this articles aims to show the movements taking on the Burmese society. The migration is not envisaged here as a founding act but as a creation process of social continuities and discontinuities. It allows us to study “tensions” emerging between the “native” and the local society, these “tensions” being the result of the appropriation of new ecological, socio-cultural and ethnic environments. I argue that on the first hand, the necessary continuity between the “native” and the arrival societies mobilizes some social structures revealed by the migration. On the other, the inherent discontinuities in the socialization process of the conquered environments reveal some frontiers of various natures (ecological, of social organization, cultural, ethnic) structuring the social landscape. The Burmese relationship to the kyézu’shin is emphasized here as a continuity’s structure and a powerful vector for the Irrawaddy delta’s burmization and buddhisation process. In the southernmost region of Burma, this relation is transposed to the taukè’s one and modifies itself at the contact with the Moken (nomads of austronesian origins). As a consequence, the interactions between the two populations act both as the core of a social differentiation and a vector to integrate the insular environment to the Burmese social space. |
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| ISSN: | 1620-3224 2262-8363 |